Popular Culture References
- "Escape in Time" (1967), was an episode of The Avengers, in which a signboard said, "Where is Blake?" The episode itself featured super criminals following an "escape route" where they disappear to get away with their ill-gotten gains.
- The 1973 film The Mackintosh Man features a character named Slade, who is based on Blake and who makes a similar escape from prison.
- Blake appears as a character in the 1990 novel by Ian McEwan, The Innocent.
- The play Cell Mates (1995) by Simon Gray is about Blake and Sean Bourke. The original production starred Stephen Fry as Blake and Rik Mayall as Bourke. The production was thrown into turmoil when Fry walked out following a bad review.
- After the Break (2002), a radio play by Ian Curteis, centred on the uncomfortable relationship between Blake and Bourke after they had both fled to Moscow.
- Blake's story appears in the 1982 novel Shadow of Shadows by Ted Allbeury.
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